Georgine Kellermann

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Georgine Kellermann (born Georg Kellermann on September 21, 1957 in Ratingen ) is a German journalist .

Life

Career

Georgine Kellermann attended the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Gymnasium in Ratingen from 1969 to 1978 and already wrote here for the local editorial office Ratingen of the Rheinische Post before graduating from high school . In 1983 she applied to WDR television , shortly after the evening magazine “ Current Hour ” started, and became a regional correspondent for Duisburg and the Lower Rhine. The last labor disputes of the steel workers in Duisburg-Rheinhausen was one of their journalistic highlights at that time. In 1992 she became editor of the ARD morning magazine, which had also just started, and reported as a correspondent from Washington and Paris. In 1997 she moved to Washington to report from there together with Claus Kleber , Tom Buhrow and Sabine Reifenberg as correspondents for ARD. From 2002 she went to Paris as an ARD correspondent for five years. From 2006 on she led the ARD studio in Bonn and on June 2, 2014 she became studio manager of the WDR studio in Duisburg. On June 1, 2019, she took over the management of the WDR studio in Essen.

Coming out

Until the end of 2019 she lived as a man under the name Georg Kellermann and can still be found under this name in old reports, records and archive material that arose in her work as a journalist. In her private life she was already known to be a transgender person. She told her father about the mid-1980s (“I thought so”). In her familiar surroundings she wore women's clothing for years. In front of the camera and on the broadcaster, Georgine Kellermann continued to appear in the role of a man and explained in an interview: “It was an incredible feat of strength to play this role all these years. In my circle of friends, in my family, I never kept quiet about it. [...] I had the pumps on until I drove into the studio's underground car park. Then I took them off. [...] Then I went to work. " As a reason for hiding her womanhood for a long time at work, she explained: “I was worried that people would laugh at me. That one no longer separates the journalistic competence and the social competence. […] My concern was simply […]. If I become who I am now that I can no longer do what I love. "

In September 2019, while in the US , Kellermann made the decision to come out as a transgender person. First, she changed the profile picture on social media (including Facebook , Twitter ) and then, after her return, declared herself to her colleagues “as the woman she has always felt like.” As her employer, WDR now officially lists her as “ Studio manager Georgine Kellermann ”.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c OTS broadcast by WDR : Georg Kellermann becomes the new head of the WDR studio in Essen. In: Presseportal.de . May 27, 2019, accessed February 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ "I was worried that people would laugh at me" Portrait of Julian Erbersdobler in the Süddeutsche Zeitung from March 13, 2020
  3. ↑ a b Andrea Moos: The coming-out of a transgender boss in the WDR. Interview with Georgine Kellermann. In: WDR.de . December 12, 2019, accessed on February 21, 2020 (with video of the corresponding article in the current hour , 04:16 minutes).
  4. ↑ Studio manager: Georgine Kellermann. Own representation. In: WDR.de, undated, accessed on February 21, 2020.
  5. ^ RIAS Radio and Television Awards 1999. In: RIAS Berlin Commission . Retrieved March 8, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Kellermann, Georgine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kellermann, Georg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratingen